Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's known as a bit of a smoothie but Nigel Havers has been given a harder edge in his new series , Sleepers , starting next week . |
| 2 | Greene King already owns 28% of Morland and has been promised a further 14.9% . |
| 3 | He will be aware , bearing in mind the other pressures we have on the budget this year , how difficult it has been to get a higher priority for roads . |
| 4 | The effect of this Act has been to inspire a greater sense of caution in British film-makers regarding the involvement of children in immodest or suggestive photography , and restrictions on importing such material might well spread these considerations abroad . |
| 5 | The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh , I believe , had a recent £200,000 deficit , but has been awarded a larger grant . |
| 6 | He will tell you he has been left a better player and a better person . |
| 7 | Saints ' chairman Eric Latham said today : ‘ Nobody at St Helens has been offered a better contract than Gary Connolly and we hope he will sign it , but that is up to Gary . |
| 8 | What else could you do if you 'd been given no further guidance ? |
| 9 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 10 | Just for a second there , she 'd been uncovering a softer , more human side to the man . |
| 11 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 12 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 13 | Which bond is offering the better return ? |
| 14 | The better mousetrap All you have to do is build a better version of brand X and the world will beat a path to your door . |
| 15 | BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations . |
| 16 | One solution could have been to put the smaller plants and animals in boxes or circles around a central illustration of a lake or pond with arrows indicating where they could be found . |
| 17 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 18 | People with head injuries who ca n't get the long-term treatment they need have been promised a better deal . |
| 19 | But all it did was to create a bigger gap that just got bigger and bigger . |
| 20 | They have a superior front five , although the Pontypridd lock Mark Rowley had been getting the better of several big names lately and will relish the prospect of testing himself against Tony Copsey . |
| 21 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 22 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 23 | The king 's original intention , goaded by the Pope 's refusal to grant him a divorce , had been to effect a greater lay control of an uncertain church . |
| 24 | It was agreed the method of the selling of tickets for future occasions should be considered but that once the quota had been reached no further participants should be admitted . |
| 25 | In later life , Jaq understood that this particular Black Ship had been carrying a higher percentage of individualists hailing from less longstandingly pious worlds , than most such shipments . |
| 26 | With the 8 mm clast sizes , exposed edges of bone began to become chipped within the first hour of abrasion and some loss of molars occurred ( Fig. 1.10A ) , but once the weaker bone had been removed no further breakage occurred . |
| 27 | If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were . |
| 28 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 29 | Incidentally , I 've been using a better copy of PagePlus 2 ( due to be launched in March ) and I have to say I 'm very impressed . |
| 30 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |